Read time: 6 mins Bonjour! I’m still travelling and I'm writing from Biarritz, France. Biarritz is on the southwest of France and near the border of Spain. They call it France’s Basque coast. I was told that Biarritz became a popular seaside town since European royalty began visiting in the 1800s because of the empress Eugénie de Montijo (1826-1920) who was married to Emperor Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. She fancied the cute seaside village and convinced her husband to build a summer palace...